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Kissing Quotes

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Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases. – Chinese Proverb

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. – Albert Einstein

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. – Janeane Garofalo

Stolen kisses are always sweetest. – Leigh Hunt

kissing quotesIn love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek. – French Proverb

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. – Winston Churchill

I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. – Chico Marx

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. – Jonathan Swift

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. – Bernard Meltzer

A kiss may ruin a human life. – Oscar Wilde

Short Love Quotes

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After a great piece of Short Tattoo Quotes, let me share with you some Short Love Quotes. Please enjoy, share, and tell us what’s your favorite from this list.

“Love makes time pass; time makes love pass” – French Proverb

“It is not love, but lack of love which is blind” – Glenway Wescott

“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity” – George Bernard Shaw

“The hottest love has the coldest end” – Socrates

“Forget love… I’d rather fall in chocolate” – Unknown

“He who is not impatient is not in love” – Italian Proverb

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder” – William Shakespeare

“Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener” – Pauline Thomason

“Better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all” – Hemmingway

“The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most” – Kati

Short Love Quotes“Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile” – Elizabeth Browning

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left” – Marilyn Monroe

“Love is like a war: Easy to begin Hard to end” – Ancient Proverbs

“Live the life you’ve dreamed” – Henry David Thoreau

“Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful” – Unknown

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear” – John Lennon

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them” – Mother Teresa

“I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you” – Roy Croft

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller

“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world” – Heather Cortez

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime” – Bette Davis

“If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go” – Unknown

“When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams” – Dr. Seuss

“The best thing about me is you” – Shannon Crown

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death” – Thomas Mann

Anger Quotes

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– “If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” – Sydney J. Harris

– “There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.” – Alexandre Dumas

– “Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.” – Robert Brault

– “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

– “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Unknown

– “Anger is one letter short of danger.” – Unknown

– “Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

– “People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” – Will Rogers

– “Never write a letter while you are angry.” – Chinese Proverb

– “Get mad, then get over it.” – Colin Powell

– “The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.” – Bede Jarrett

– “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966

– “In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” – Mark Twain

– “Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” – Malachy McCourt

– “Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.” – Robert Brault

– “If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.” – Korean Proverb

– “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” – Chinese Proverb

– “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” – Albert Einstein

– “No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” – George Jean Nathan

– “Anger is short-lived madness.” – Horace

– “Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” – George Eliot

– “Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.” – Lyman Abbott

– “Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” – Robert G. Ingersoll

– “Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.” – Unknown

– “Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger.” – Sweetpea Tyler

– “Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.” – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

– “Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.” – James Fallows

– “At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” – Marshall B. Rosenberg

– “Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.” – Lemony Snicket

– “I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.” – Unknown

– “Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?” – Jareb Teague

– “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha

– “Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.” – Seneca

– “Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.” – Louis L’Armour

– “Never strike your wife – even with a flower.” – Hindu Proverb

– “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce

– “When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894

– “Anger is a bad counselor.” – French Proverb

– “Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.” – Neil Kinnock

– “The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.” – Wilson Mizner

– “To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.” – William H. Walton

– “The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” – Jacqueline Schiff

– “When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.” – Elbert Hubbard

– “Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” – Marcus Antonius

Perseverance Quotes

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t. ~Henry Ward Beecher

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~Author Unknown

When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
~Author Unknown

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Author Unknown

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker

He conquers who endures. ~Persius

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. ~Robert Brault

You can’t go through life quitting everything. If you’re going to achieve anything, you’ve got to stick with something. ~From the television show Family Matters

I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up. ~Erika Harris

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author Unknown

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1893

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown

Perseverance… keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~William Shakespeare

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. ~Author Unknown

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying

I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. ~Charles F. Kettering

One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb

Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ~Georges-Louis Leclerc

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent – that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. ~William James

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. ~André A. Jackson

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis